whizzergo

Bumping this one again in the hope that someone has new insight to add with the passage of time.

Could you please share where you saw this reported? For the first category "Rich global citizens", every piece i've read suggests that all of those criteria must be met. Your screenshot suggests that it would be enough to meet the last 2 requirements. That's a big difference.

There seems to be 2 layers of potential difficulty and it's not clear about the realistic complications of either as yet. First is simply entering the country with the volunteer visa in the passport (so, airport IO refusing entry after arrival). Second is getting the elite visa attached with the volunteer visa in the passport (although as has been mentioned previously, if they've already approved the application then this seems quite unlikely). One way around this, if applicable to you, would be to try to get the Elite visa attached in your home country. I'm thinking, that way, if they refuse to attach it when you're still in your home country it should be much faster and easier to get a new passport and then try again. There is perhaps another layer of issue here in that once you've been refused, does it then become an issue to get it attached even once you have a new passport? That seems to open up a whole new can of worms.

In the same situation here I was told that the commission was 5% and I had the same offer of a split of it. So 2.5% discount to me as the customer. Was that the same you had?

I was told this by the elite team themselves. You can ask them, but they'll likely dissuade you and tell you to get a new passport. I suspect that they're just covering their backs in case it does go wrong, but obviously can't be certain on that. In your position I would just give it a go. The worst that's going to happen is that you'll be denied and have to get a new passport before the visa is applied. It would be great if you could update how you get on. Good luck!

As an update here, I've been told that at least one person has successfully applied for and received the Thai Elite visa with said volunteer visa still in their passport.

So this question follows on from conversation in prior threads. Basically there's a threat/hypothesis that passport holders who have a 'dodgy' volunteer visa from the Covid period (those issued in Korat, without a given volunteer organisation, for example) would be denied re-entry to Thailand if they tried to come back on the same passport housing that visa. It seems very far fetched, but I'd be keen to know if anyone had first hand experience of being allowed/denied entry in these circumstances? Cheers